Abstract
Using the newspaper circulation data collected through the Alliance for Audited Media (<em>n</em> = 1,925 across five years), this study provides the first empirical spatial analysis of newspaper circulation in the US, employing the theoretical framework of communication geography and the analytical tool of spatial econometrics. From 2018 to 2022, a steady decline (at an average of 24.1% per year) in newspaper circulation was observed in most of the counties in the dataset, after controlling for spatial and temporal random effects. A positive and significant spatial autocorrelation was found across the US. The local indicators of spatial association results identified four types of spatial clusters that offer a more nuanced understanding of the local spatial distribution of newspaper circulation: news deserts, news oases, news islands, and the fringe of news deserts. The study also used Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling to pinpoint the regions that are more sensitive to the spatial structure regarding the decline of newspaper circulation.
Reference79 articles.
1. Abernathy, P. M. (2014). Saving community journalism: The path to profitability. UNC Press Books.
2. Abernathy, P. M. (2018). The expanding news desert. Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media. https://www.cislm.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Expanding-News-Desert-10_14-Web.pdf
3. Abernathy, P. M. (2020). News deserts and ghost newspapers: Will local news survive? University of North Carolina Press.
4. Adams, P. C. (2011). A taxonomy for communication geography. Progress in Human Geography, 35(1), 37–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510368451
5. Adams, P. C., & Jansson, A. (2012). Communication geography: A bridge between disciplines. Communication Theory, 22(3), 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2012.01406.x
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献